All Episodes

S29 Ep 1 | Becoming Human: With God in Our Bodies

Ash Wednesday | Invitation to Lent: Participating in the Paschal Mystery

S28 Ep 4 | Advent Week 4: Soul Work in Winter

S28 Ep 3 | Advent Week 3: Beyond Safety

S28 Ep 2 | Advent Week 2: Blue Christmas

S28 Ep 1| Advent Week 1: Invited Inward

S27 Ep 5 | Creative Work: Partnering with God in an Age of Distraction

S27 Ep 4 | Beyond Relevance to Transcendence in Community

S27 Ep 3 | The Kids Will Be Alright, Right?

S27 Ep 2 | Paying Attention to What’s Getting our Attention

S27 Ep 1 | Turning Off the Noise, Tuning In to Our Life with God

S27 Ep 0 | Taming our Technologies: [Spiritual] Practices for a Digital Age

TEASER: Summer Poetry Fest Episode 1 | The Journey by Mary Oliver

BONUS | The Gift of Desperation: 12 Steps as a Model for Spiritual Transformation

[Revisiting] Transforming Post-Resurrection Encounters with Jesus

S26 Ep 7 | Going Through: Tarrying for God’s Strength in Times of Trouble

S26 Ep 6 |Desperate for God to Intervene: The Ongoing Tarry

S26 Ep 5 | Quiet: Stewarding the Tarrying Moment in Worship

S26 Ep 4 | Tarrying with the Spirit of Justice: Orienting Ourselves Towards Ultimate Reality

S26 Ep 3 | Active Tarrying: Finding Freedom to Move with God's Spirit

S26 Ep 2 | Minding the Gap: Moving Beyond Dualism to Oneness

S26 Ep 1 | Tarrying For the Spirit: Waiting to Receive What We Need From God

S25 Ep 4 | Advent Week 4: An Invitation to Find God in Unexpected Places

S25 Ep 3 | Advent Week 3: An Invitation to the Wilderness

S25 Ep 2 | Advent Week 2: An Invitation to Transformation in Seasons of Barrenness

S25 Ep 1 | Advent Week 1: An Invitation to a New Season in Advent

S24 Ep 8 | Wrestling with the Cross: What does the Atonement Really Mean?

S24 Ep 7 | The Work of Justice: Restoring what has Been Lost, Repairing What has been Broken

S24 Ep 6 | Making Room: Welcoming the One Who is Strange to You

BONUS: Connecting the State of Our Politics and the State of Our Souls

S24 Ep 5 | Knocking on Heaven’s Door: A Spirituality that is Practice-Based

S24 Ep 4 | Reading in Color: Engaging Scripture Across Cultural Contexts

S24 Ep 3 | Attending to the Spirit: The Gift of Spiritual Direction

S24 Ep 2 | Understanding Our Complexity: The Role of Desire in the Spiritual Life

S24 Ep 1 | The Future of Christian Spirituality: Towards a More Unified Faith

S23 Ep 5 | The Head Center: Managing Our Relationship with Fear

S23 Ep 4 | The Heart Center: Managing Our Relationship with Connection and Disconnection

S23 Ep 3 | The Body Center: Managing Our Relationship with Anger

S23 Ep 2: Beyond the Basics, Beyond the Behaviors

S23 Ep1: It Was the Worst of Times: How the Enneagram Can Help Us Navigate a Troubled World

Easter Monday | Transforming Post-Resurrection Encounters with Jesus (A Replay)

S22 Ep7: Walking With Jesus in His Suffering During Holy Week

S22 Ep 6: A Hope That Does Not Disappoint

S22 Ep 5: This is Hard! The Role of Endurance in Forming a Durable Hope

S22 Ep4 | Hope in the Midst of Collective Suffering

S22 Ep 3 | What Does God’s Glory Have to Do With Our Suffering?

S22 Ep 2 | Compassion and Curiosity: Attuning to Different Parts of our Suffering

S22 Ep 1 | What’s Suffering Got to Do With It (Our Transformation)?

BONUS: Preparing for Lent | Fashioning Your Own Desert

Visio Divina Guided Practice | Assumptions

Season 21: Honest Advent | Week 4: Where is God in the Unfolding?

Season 21: Honest Advent | Week 3: Where is God in My Humanity?

Season 21: Honest Advent | Week 2: Where is God in my Vulnerability?

Season 21: Honest Advent | Week 1: Where is God in My Uncertainty?

Season 21: Preparing for Advent: Honest Longings, Honest Questions

Season 20: Episode 7 | This is Fun, Y’all: The Joy and Hope of Transforming Worship

Season 20: Episode 6 | What about my puppets? Beyond Programming to Worship that Changes Us

Season 20: Episode 5 | Worship on Earth as it is In Heaven: The Transforming Power of Diversity

Season 20: Episode 4 | The Pain and the Promise of Communion

Season 20: Episode 3 | Re-thinking Sunday Mornings: Creating Space for God

Season 20: Episode 2 | Beyond Auto Pilot: Worship that is Spiritually Substantive

FROM PATREON: Principles of Transforming Worship

Season 20: Episode 1 | Beyond the Frenzy: Worship that Transforms

FROM PATREON: A Special Conversation about Justice with Sandra Van Opstal

FROM PATREON: Ask Ruth #8: Questions about A Just Lent

REPLAY Season 17: Episode 5 | The Power of Unplugging

REPLAY Season 16: Episode 6 | Second Order Change: Recognizing and Dissolving Stuck Patterns

REPLAY Season 10: Episode 7 | The Classic Spiritual Disciplines

REPLAY: Season 6: Episode 4 | Finding Your Rhythm on Retreat

Special Mini-Episode: A State of the Podcast Announcement

Season 19: Easter Monday | Transforming Post-Resurrection Encounters with Jesus

Season 19: Lent Week 6 | Lament: Saying No to Triumphalism

Season 19: Lent Week 5 | Communal Suffering: Can These Bones Live?

Season 19: Lent Week 4 | Opposing Violent Injustice: Bringing Light to the Darkest Places

Season 19: Lent Week 3 | The Work of Justice: Healing our Broken Ways

Season 19: Lent Week 2 | Colonialism and Christianity: Bible Translation as a Work of Justice

Season 19: Lent Week 1| Confession: What We Have Done and What We Have Left Undone

Season 19: Lent Ash Wednesday | Invitation to a Just Lent: Learning to Love What God Loves

Season 18: Episode 5 | What about the Congregation? How Everyone Benefits from a Pastor’s Sabbatical

Season 18: Episode 4 | Are You Willing to Quit Your Job: Sabbatical for the Rest of Us

Season 18: Episode 3 | Boundaries: Protecting What is Precious

Season 18: Episode 2 | More Than a Vacation: Planning for a Meaningful Sabbatical

Season 18: Episode 1 | When Sabbath Isn’t Enough: Embracing the Gift of Sabbatical

Bonus: Advent 2022 Year A

Season 17: Episode 11 | Sabbath Journey: Do Something Before You Do Everything

Season 17: Episode 10 | Fruit and Frustration: Creating a Culture Where Everyone Can Rest

Season 17: Episode 9 | Getting Honest About the Challenges of Sabbath Community

Season 17: Episode 8 | Sabbath Leaders Cultivating Sabbath Communities

Season 17: Episode 7 | Sabbath Rhythms During Seasons of Singleness and Care-giving

Season 17: Episode 6 | Sharing Sabbath Presence Within Our Families

Season 17: Episode 5 | The Power of Unplugging

Season 17: Episode 4 | Shabbat: Conversation with a Jewish Rabbi

Season 17: Episode 3 | Sabbath as Resistance

Season 17: Episode 2 | The Poetry of Sabbath

Season 17: Episode 1 | Awakening to God’s Gift of Sabbath

BONUS: A Conversation with Glenn Packiam on Being a Resilient Pastor, Challenges Facing the Church, and Cultivating A Spiritual Life

BONUS: Ask Ruth #5 Excerpt

Season 16: Episode 9 | Transforming Leadership: Spiritual Resources for the Journey

Season 16: Episode 8 | Systems Theory and Leadership: Picking Up the Tools that Diffuse Anxiety

Season 16: Episode 7 | It’s a Human Thing: Systems Theory in Non-Majority Spaces

Season 16: Episode 6 | Second Order Change: Recognizing and Dissolving Stuck Patterns

Season 16: Episode 5 | The Freedom of Taking Responsibility

Season 16: Episode 4 | Calm Presence: Leadership, Anxiety, and the False Self

Season 16: Episode 3 | The Sins of the Fathers (and Mothers): How Family of Origin Impacts Our Leadership

Season 16: Episode 2 | The Most Powerful Leadership Tool: Diagnosing and Diffusing Anxiety

Season 16: Episode 1| What’s Really Going On? Systems Theory and the Soul of Leadership

Season 15: Easter Monday | Practicing Resurrection

Season 15: Holy Week | Following Jesus All the Way

Season 15: Lent Week 6 | Living Between Two Passions

Season 15: Lent Week 5 | Out With the Old, In With the New

Season 15: Lent Week 4 | The Power of Confession

Season 15: Lent Week 3 | Seeking God While He May Be Found

Season 15: Lent Week 2 | Consenting to God’s Will Deep Within

Season 15: Lent Week 1 | Fashioning Our Own Wilderness

Lent 2022 Teaser | Lent for Leaders: With God in the Wilderness

BONUS: A Conversation with Rory Noland about Transforming Worship

BONUS: A Conversation with Aaron Niequist about Fixed Hour Prayer and Transforming Community 18

Bonus: Christmastide | Epiphany

Season 14: Advent Week 5 | Christmastide

Season 14: Advent Week 4 | Saying Yes to God

Season 14: Advent Week 3 | A Call to Repentance

Season 14: Advent Week 2 | Necessary Preparations

Season 14: Advent Week 1 | The Darkness of Waiting

Advent 2021 Teaser

BONUS: Ask Ruth #3 Excerpt

BONUS: A Conversation about Becoming a Transforming Church

Season 13: Episode 12 | Invitations from God: Invitation to the Most Excellent Way

Season 13: Episode 11 | Invitations from God: Invitation to Remember

Season 13: Episode 10 | Invitations from God: Invitation to Pray

Season 13: Episode 9 | Invitations from God: Invitation to Wait

Season 13: Episode 8 | Invitations from God: Invitation to Forgive

Season 13: Episode 7 | Invitations from God: Invitation to Admit I Might Be Wrong

Season 13: Episode 6 | Invitations from God: Invitation to Weep

Season 13: Episode 5 | Invitations from God: Invitation to Rest

Season 13: Episode 4 | Invitations from God: Invitation to Practice the Presence of People

BONUS Episode Ask Ruth Teaser

Season 13: Episode 3 | Invitations from God: Invitation to Follow

Season 13: Episode 2 | Invitations from God: Invitation to Participate in Your Own Healing

Season 13: Episode 1 | Invitations from God: What are God’s Invitations?

Season 13 Teaser + New Patron Program

Season 12: Episode 7 | Principles of the Deeper Life

Season 12: Episode 6 | Putting on the New Nature

Season 12: Episode 5 | Abandoning the False Self

Season 12: Episode 4 | Hidden With Christ in God: The False Self and the Christ Self

Season 12: Episode 3 | The Idol in the Box: The Religious False Self

Season 12: Episode 2 | Into the Jungle: The False Self

Season 12: Episode 1 | Deeper Journey: The Spirituality of Discovering Your True Self

Season 12 Trailer: The Deeper Journey

Christmastide, Year B: How Silently, How Silently, the Wondrous Gift is Given

Fourth Sunday of Advent, Year B: Mary and the Prayer of Indifference

Third Sunday of Advent, Year B: Keepin' it Real

Second Sunday of Advent, Year B: What Sort of Persons Ought We To Be?

First Sunday of Advent, Year B: Living Between Two Worlds

Advent 2020 Teaser

Season 10: Episode 10 | Social Spirituality

Season 10: Episode 9 | Corporate Spirituality

Season 10: Episode 8 | The Nature and Dynamics of Spiritual Disciplines

Season 10: Episode 7 | The Classic Spiritual Disciplines

Season 10: Episode 6 | The Classic Christian Pilgrimage

Season 10: Episode 5 | Holistic Spirituality, Part 2

Season 10: Episode 4 | Holistic Spirituality, Part 1

Season 10: Episode 3 | Creation Gifts on the Spiritual Journey

Season 10: Episode 2 | The Road Map of Spiritual Formation, Part 2

Season 10: Episode 1 | The Road Map of Spiritual Formation, Part 1

Season 10: Trailer | Invitation to a Journey

Season 9: Episode 10 | Spiritual Transformation For the Sake of Others

Season 9: Episode 9 | Spiritual Transformation and Psychology

Season 9: Episode 8 | Spiritual Transformation and Practice-based Faith

Season 9: Episode 7 | Spiritual Transformation and Family Systems (Part 2)

Season 9: Episode 6 | Spiritual Transformation and Family Systems (Part 1)

Season 9: BONUS EPISODE FOR GOOD FRIDAY | Experiencing the Stations of the Cross

Season 9: BONUS EPISODE | Listening and Responding to God Amidst the COVID-19 Crisis

Season 9: Episode 5 | Transformation and Sexuality with Steve Wiens

Season 9: Episode 4 | Spiritual Transformation and Money with David Wills and Todd Harper

Season 9: Episode 3 | The Struggle to Give Our Death Away with Ron Rolheiser

Season 9: Episode 2 | The Struggle to Give Our Lives Away with Ron Rolheiser

Season 9: Episode 1 | The Struggle to Get our Lives Together with Ron Rolheiser

Season 8: Episode 5 | Christmastide: From Waiting to Wonder

Season 8: Episode 4 | Fourth Sunday of Advent: Joseph and the Walk of Faith

Season 8: Episode 3 | Third Sunday of Advent: Gifts in the Wilderness

Season 8: Episode 2 | Second Sunday of Advent: Joyful Preparations

Season 8: Episode 1 | First Sunday of Advent: The Importance of Waking Up

Season 7: Week 8 | Eastertide: Living in the Mystery

Season 7: Week 7 | Holy Week: Liturgy of the Passion

Season 7: Week 6 | Holy Week: Liturgy of the Palms

Season 7: Week 5 | Suffering: Dying that we Might Live

Season 7: Week 4 | Confession: Coming Home to God

Season 7: Week 3 | Repentance: Cleaning our Messy House

Season 7: Week 2 | Self-Denial: Setting our Minds on Things Above

Season 7: Week 1 | Solitude: Fashioning our Own Wilderness

Season 7: Ash Wednesday | Crossing the Threshold Into Lent

Season 6: Episode 12 | In Returning and Rest You Shall Be Saved

Season 6: Episode 11 | Remember the Signs

Season 6: Episode 10 | Spiritual Freedom

Season 6: Episode 9 | Invitation to Recalibrate

Season 6: Episode 8 | Space for Discernment

Season 6: Episode 7 | Relinquishing False Self Patterns

Season 6: Episode 6 | Letting Go of Your Grip

Season 6: Episode 5 | Sweet Hours of Prayer

Season 6: Episode 4 | Finding Your Rhythm on Retreat

Season 6: Episode 3 | The Sources of our Exhaustion

Season 6: Episode 2 | Just Flop Down

Special Episode: Discovering Advent

Season 6: Episode 1 | Strategic Withdrawal

Season 5: Episode 12 | For the Sake of Others

Season 5: Episode 11 | Receiving Guidance

Season 5: Episode 10 | Pure Presence

Season 5: Episode 9 | Facing Ourselves

Season 5: Episode 8 | Emptiness

Season 5: Episode 7 | Rest for the Soul

Season 5: Episode 6 | Rest for the Mind

Season 5: Episode 5 | Rest for the Body

Season 5: Episode 4 | Dangerously Tired

Season 5: Episode 3 | Resistance

Season 5: Episode 2 | Beginnings

Season 5: Episode 1 | Beyond Words

BONUS EPISODE: A Conversation with Ruth Haley Barton and Aaron Niequist

Season 4: Episode 9 | Finding God in the Crucible of Ministry

Season 4: Episode 8 | From Isolation to Discernment in Community

Season 4: Episode 7 | Leadership as Intercession

Season 4: Episode 6 | Spiritual Rhythms in the Life of a Leader

Season 4: Episode 5 | Guiding Others on a Spiritual Journey

Season 4: Episode 4 | The Conundrum of Calling

Season 4: Episode 3 | The Practice of Paying Attention

Season 4: Episode 2 | The Place of Our Own Conversion

Season 4: Episode 1 | When Leaders Lose Their Souls

Season 3: Episode 9 | Discerning and Doing God’s Will Together

Season 3: Episode 8 | Get Set: From Decision-Making to Discernment

Season 3: Episode 7 | Get Ready: Preparing for Discernment

Season 3: Episode 6 | Values and Practices for Being Safe Together

Season 3: Episode 5 | Values and Practices For Opening to God Together

Season 3: Episode 4 | Community at the Leadership Level

Season 3: Episode 3 | Leaders Who Are Transforming

Season 3: Episode 2 | Beginning With Spiritual Transformation

Season 3: Episode 1 | The Heart of Spiritual Leadership

Season 3: Teaser

Season 2: Episode 9 | You are Witnesses of these Things

Season 2: Episode 8 | Discerning the Presence of Christ

Season 2: Episode 7 | Finding Our Story in HIS Story

Season 2: Episode 6 | The Nature of the Spiritual Journey

Season 2: Episode 5 | Men and Women in Community

Season 2: Episode 4 | Gathering on the Basis of Shared Desire

Season 2: Episode 3 | Choosing to Listen Rather than Fix

Season 2: Episode 2 | Welcoming the Stranger

Season 2: Episode 1 | Choosing to Walk Together

Season 1: Episode 9 | A Rule of Life: Arranging Our Lives for Spiritual Transformation

Season 1: Episode 8 | For the Sake of Others

Season 1: Episode 7 | The Art and Practice of Spiritual Discernment

Season 1: Episode 6 | Transformation Through Self-Knowledge and Self-Examination

Season 1: Episode 5 | Honoring the Body as a Spiritual Practice

Season 1: Episode 4 | Engaging the Scriptures for Transformation

Season 1: Episode 3 | Prayer - Deepening Our Intimacy With God

Bonus Episode | Lent : Returning to God with All Your Heart

Season 1: Episode 2 | A Leader's Journey into Silence and Solitude

Season 1: Episode 1 | Invitation to Retreat/Dangerously Tired